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Finance & Development, December 1977
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International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
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Series:
Finance & Development
Volume/Issue:
Volume 14: Issue 004
Language:
English
Publication Date:
01 Dec 1977
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5089/9781616353315.022
ISBN:
9781616353315
ISSN:
0015-1947
Pages:
56
Keywords:
FD; F&D; price; fund; exchange rate; country; lending; Robert S. McNamara; financing facility; Mrs. de Vries; IDA loan; IDA lending; bridging agreement; LDC trade; Exchange rates; International monetary system; Capital controls; Debt service; Adjustment process; Caribbean; Global; Africa; Europe; South Asia
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This paper discusses the launch of the Brandt Commission. The paper highlights that during the week of the Annual Meetings of the Board of Governors of the World Bank and the IMF in Washington, D.C. (September 26–30, 1977), Willy Brandt, former Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, announced that he would head an independent commission that would identify “ways of restructuring international relations that would command the widest possible support.” The Commission will have about 15 members, both from developed and developing countries.
Front Matter
Bank activity: Brandt Commission launched; IDA bridging agreement in effect; $100 million for Suez Canal expansion; Colombian project fights malnutrition; Bank and IDA loans and credits
Fund activity: Witteveen will not accept second term as Managing Director; supplementary financing facility; gold sales and the Trust Fund; Fund transactions increase: selected data on Fund holdings and commitments
Planning for worldwide economic stability: A report on the Fund Annual Meeting
Equitable growth and the world order: A report on the Bank Annual Meeting
The international monetary system in operation: The 1977 Per Jacobsson Lecture: talks by Wilfried Guth and Arthur Lewis
Review article: The history of the International Monetary Fund 1966-71
Developments in the world economy: From Chapter 1 of the Fund’s Annuai Report for 1977
The external debt of developing countries: The extent and nature of the debt problem reviewed
Floating exchange rates —some policy issues: The problems of floating, the case for exchange rate management, and the principles for international surveillance of exchange rate policies
Development theory and the Bank’s development strategy— a review: Reflections on 30 years of experience
International law and the IMF: The role of law in the working of the Fund and in the achievement of its objectives
The political economy of the Caribbean: Political and social factors that affect economic decisions and growth
Agricultural pricing policies and economic growth: A case for moving away from pricing policies that favor large farmers and urban populations in developing countries
Capital controls in three central European countries: Conclusions from a study of controls in Austria, the Federal Republic of Germany, and Switzerland in the period 1971-76
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Cover Finance & Development
Finance & Development
ISSN:
0015-1947
Publisher:
International Monetary Fund